The victory of Hassan Rouhani in the 2013 Iranian presidential election continues to reverberate throughout Iran and the world. Not surprisingly, one place where this victory is having a potentially profound effect is within the Principalist political current. Despite being heavily favored to win by many inside and outside of Iran, Principalist candidates performed very poorly with their best performing candidate Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf receiving only 16.5 percent of the vote compared to Rouhani’s 50.7 percent which allowed the Centrist-Reformist compromise candidate to unexpectedly win the election in the first round. We here at IranPolitik have focused on the divisions within Principalism, specially between hardline Neo-Principalists versus [...]
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